Report Description

This report, much like our original certs and CAs report, focuses on issuers of SSL enabling certificates found on web servers. Unlike our original report, however, this report has a couple of key differences to it:

• Reports on top 100 CAs. The original report only paid attention to the major CAs at the time the report was produced. This report lists the top 100 CAs for the month. You will find here many self-signing organizations such as universities, telecommunications firms, etc.
• Uses issuer name as identifier. Our original report only counted a certificate towards an organization if we were able to prove, by virtue of verifying the key, that the organization in question actually signed the certificate. This had a notable problem with it - we don't always have the public key of the CA. In at least one case, a CA doesn't make their public key available unless you sign a license agreement.

  This report doesn't have that problem, since it only uses the issuer Organization Name to uniquely identify the issuing CA.

CA	July 2002 Count	July 2002 %	June 2002 Count	June 2002 %	Growth %
Verisign	35,086	40.45	36,908	40.58	-0.32
Thawte	27,093	31.23	28,356	31.17	0.19
Equifax Secure Inc	6,422	7.40	8,284	9.11	-18.71
Equifax (Geotrust)	3,108	3.58	2,098	2.31	55.34
Snake Oil, Ltd	1,751	2.02	1,889	2.08	-2.80
Unknown	1,622	1.87	1,638	1.80	3.84
Entrust.net	1,124	1.30	1,146	1.26	2.85
SomeOrganization	954	1.10	956	1.05	4.64
U.S. Government	582	0.67	620	0.68	-1.57
Plesk Inc.	395	0.46	365	0.40	13.48
TC TrustCenter for Security in Data Networks GmbH	142	0.16	136	0.15	9.49
The USERTRUST Network	126	0.15	116	0.13	13.90
Internet Widgits Pty Ltd	126	0.15	129	0.14	2.42
Thawte Certification	99	0.11	106	0.12	-2.06
GlobalSign nv-sa	95	0.11	102	0.11	-2.33
Kubota Systems Inc.	79	0.09	76	0.08	9.00
GTE Corporation	76	0.09	79	0.09	0.88
Deutsche Telekom AG	71	0.08	60	0.07	24.09
Ipswitch,Inc.	65	0.07	64	0.07	6.50
Advanced Extranet Server	64	0.07	67	0.07	0.17
*.ceti.pl	64	0.07	65	0.07	3.25
Esat Net	58	0.07	60	0.07	1.37
Comodo Limited	53	0.06	21	0.02	164.65
Ensim Corporation	43	0.05	43	0.05	4.86
ispgateway	42	0.05	39	0.04	12.93
BSG	42	0.05	44	0.05	0.09
Ring d.o.o.	36	0.04	39	0.04	-3.20
NeoNova B.V.	36	0.04	38	0.04	-0.66
zNET Internet Services	32	0.04	37	0.04	-9.31
University of Florida	31	0.04	30	0.03	8.36
MDM iNet, LLC	30	0.03	30	0.03	4.86
Franke & Partner	30	0.03	30	0.03	4.86
CyberTrust Japan, Inc.	29	0.03	31	0.03	-1.90
TAIWAN-CA.COM Inc.	27	0.03	29	0.03	-2.37
SCNC	27	0.03	28	0.03	1.12
Onyx Internet	27	0.03	28	0.03	1.12
Deep Industry	24	0.03	24	0.03	4.86
Massachusetts Institute of Technology	22	0.03	20	0.02	15.35
UUNET UK	21	0.02	21	0.02	4.86
Indra's Net, Inc.	21	0.02	22	0.02	0.09
Advantagecom Networks, Inc.	21	0.02	28	0.03	-21.35
University of Maryland	20	0.02	20	0.02	4.86
Stargate.Net, Inc.	20	0.02	18	0.02	16.51
Idonex AB	20	0.02	20	0.02	4.86
WebMoney Transfer	19	0.02	18	0.02	10.69
Logacont AG	19	0.02	18	0.02	10.69
Stalker Software, Inc.	17	0.02	15	0.02	18.84
HAL interactive, d.o.o.	17	0.02	18	0.02	-0.96
University of Helsinki	16	0.02	17	0.02	-1.31
Beocity	16	0.02	12	0.01	39.82
Linux Test Server	15	0.02	17	0.02	-7.48
Webmin Software	14	0.02	19	0.02	-22.73
Web Hosting	14	0.02	25	0.03	-41.28
Sun Microsystems Inc	14	0.02	11	0.01	33.46
Estore Corp	14	0.02	14	0.02	4.86
USMC	13	0.01	12	0.01	13.60
Radio Data Group Inc	13	0.01	13	0.01	4.86
NetLock Halozatbiztonsagi Kft.	13	0.01	13	0.01	4.86
NIH	13	0.01	11	0.01	23.93
IPS Seguridad CA	13	0.01	17	0.02	-19.81
DeZines Web Hosting	13	0.01	22	0.02	-38.04
Unizeto Sp. z o.o.	12	0.01	12	0.01	4.86
Tele Danmark	12	0.01	10	0.01	25.83
PVT a.s.	12	0.01	10	0.01	25.83
IPrimus USA	12	0.01	12	0.01	4.86
Certipor S.A.	12	0.01	12	0.01	4.86
Your Organization	11	0.01	11	0.01	4.86
XAO Inc.	11	0.01	11	0.01	4.86
International Business Machines Corporation	11	0.01	11	0.01	4.86
CNRS	11	0.01	9	0.01	28.16
dummy	10	0.01	8	0.01	31.08
Nebraska On-Ramp	10	0.01	0	0.00	N/A
Inter Clear Service Ltd	10	0.01	10	0.01	4.86
IndyWeb Inc.	10	0.01	10	0.01	4.86
Carnegie Mellon University	10	0.01	10	0.01	4.86
helpdesk.powercom.net	9	0.01	17	0.02	-44.49
comDesign	9	0.01	9	0.01	4.86
Uppsala universitet	9	0.01	9	0.01	4.86
Universitaet Heidelberg	9	0.01	10	0.01	-5.62
Tampere University of Technology	9	0.01	9	0.01	4.86
Schell Computersysteme	9	0.01	11	0.01	-14.20
MadrynCom	9	0.01	0	0.00	N/A
Kasetsart University	9	0.01	0	0.00	N/A
IceWarp Software	9	0.01	0	0.00	N/A
IMS	9	0.01	9	0.01	4.86
Barak ITC	9	0.01	10	0.01	-5.62
BEA WebLogic	9	0.01	0	0.00	N/A
Associazione Investici	9	0.01	0	0.00	N/A
A&S Systemtechnik	9	0.01	9	0.01	4.86
WebNexus Communications	8	0.01	8	0.01	4.86
Viawest Internet Services	8	0.01	8	0.01	4.86
University of Waterloo	8	0.01	8	0.01	4.86
SYLABA Internet	8	0.01	8	0.01	4.86
Rutgers University	8	0.01	0	0.00	N/A
Media3 Inc	8	0.01	8	0.01	4.86
Interzona.net srl	8	0.01	8	0.01	4.86
IP ProLink Ltd	8	0.01	0	0.00	N/A
INFN	8	0.01	10	0.01	-16.11
Hypervine Communications, Inc	8	0.01	8	0.01	4.86
Frank's Radio	8	0.01	0	0.00	N/A

Note: Readers are cautioned that the Growth percentages are based on a CA's market share penetration rather than the absolute number of certificates we detected. Thus, it is possible for the number of certificates to increase, while the growth is actually a negative value.